Description
In the current chat layout, messages are displayed as chat bubbles aligned left and right depending on sender/recipient. While this layout is generally nice and easy to follow, the message bubbles feel too narrow, especially on wider screens.
There is a lot of unused horizontal space in the chat view, but longer messages are wrapped relatively early. This makes reading longer messages less comfortable than necessary.
Expected behavior
Chat bubbles should make better use of the available horizontal space.
Possible improvements could be:
- Increase the maximum width of chat bubbles (other messenger have almost full with)
- Add a user setting for compact/default/wide chat bubbles
- Keep the current layout as default, but allow users to choose a wider message layout
- Allow change from chat bubbles to simple text layout
Actual behavior
Chat bubbles are aligned correctly to the left/right, but they remain relatively narrow even when there is plenty of available space. Currently it seems only 60-70% of the width is used.
This causes longer messages to wrap too early and makes chats feel visually cramped.
Description
In the current chat layout, messages are displayed as chat bubbles aligned left and right depending on sender/recipient. While this layout is generally nice and easy to follow, the message bubbles feel too narrow, especially on wider screens.
There is a lot of unused horizontal space in the chat view, but longer messages are wrapped relatively early. This makes reading longer messages less comfortable than necessary.
Expected behavior
Chat bubbles should make better use of the available horizontal space.
Possible improvements could be:
Actual behavior
Chat bubbles are aligned correctly to the left/right, but they remain relatively narrow even when there is plenty of available space. Currently it seems only 60-70% of the width is used.
This causes longer messages to wrap too early and makes chats feel visually cramped.